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Sym: 0912.53
Date: 15 december 2009
From: Christophe Madelein <Christophe.Madelein@UGent.be>
Subject: Sym: 0912.53: Conferentie 'Enlightenment? Ideas, Transfers, Circles, Attitudes, Practices', Gent, vr 22 - za 23 januari 2010
Conference 'Enlightenment? Ideas, Transfers, Circles, Attitudes, Practices', Gent, 22-23 January 2010
Scope of the Conference
This conference seeks to find an answer to the question of what "the
Enlightenment" was and perhaps still is. Since historians started
searching for enlightenments other than that of the
eighteenth-century French avant-garde, Enlightenment research has
broadened to include various national contexts, radical and moderate
variants, and also a wide range of disciplines, producing such novel
conceptions as the theological or encyclopedic Enlightenment. The
presentations examine enlightened ideas, circles, attitudes, and
practices, and go beyond disciplinary boundaries and provide a wider
picture of the era. The contributors try to find new points of entry
to a period that is of highly topical interest but is also burdened
with so many, often even contradictory interpretations that one
should first establish what Enlightenment one means before starting
a discussion. Is the Enlightenment to be qualified as a contest of
ideas, a communication process, a developing taste or lifestyle, an
empowering culture, or a collection of experiences?
Programme
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Friday 22 January
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11:30 |
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Member Meeting of the Dutch-Belgian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
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12:30 |
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Lunch |
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13:00 |
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Registration |
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13:15 |
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Opening: Wiep van Bunge, chair of the
Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Wiep van Bunge
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL); |
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13.30 |
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Announcement of the winner of the
essay contest 2008 |
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13:45 |
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Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht University,
NL): In search of the Enlightenment |
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14.45 |
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Alise van Hecke-Jameson (Ghent
University, B): Enlightenment Authorship: The Case of the Society
for the Encouragement of Learning |
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15.15 |
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Coffee break |
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15.45 |
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Hanco Jürgens (University of
Amsterdam, NL): How to Study the Cultural History of Change? The
Enlightenment Compared with the Sixties |
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16:15 |
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Peter Clark (University of Helsinki,
FIN): Spaces, Circuits and Short-circuits in the European
Enlightenment |
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17:15 |
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Drinks |
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Saturday 23 January 2010 |
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09:30 |
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Registration |
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10:00 |
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David Sorkin (University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA): Four Characteristics of the Religious
Enlightenment |
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11:00 |
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John Robertson (St. Hugh's College,
Oxford, GB): Do We Need More than One Enlightenment? |
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12:00 |
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Coffee break |
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12:15 |
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Christophe Madelein (Ghent University,
B): The Epic Struggle of the Ancien Regime |
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12:45 |
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Emiliano Acosta (Ghent University, B):
A Religious Dimension in the Radical Enlightenment? Towards a
Definition of the Concept of Radical Enlightenment |
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13:15 |
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Lunch |
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14:00 |
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Florian Heyerick (University College
Ghent, B): "Der Tod Jesu" between Bible and Poetry |
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14:30 |
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Marion Huibrechts (Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, B): 'Enlightened' Views of the American
Continent During the 1780s |
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15:00 |
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Plenary discussion |
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15:30 |
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End |
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Participation Conference
Registration for the conference: http://www.18e-eeuw.nl or
penningmeester@18e-eeuw.nl
Entrance fee Friday 22 January 2010: EUR 15,- (students and
AIO's EUR 10,-), entrance fee Saturday 23 January 2010: EUR 25,-
(students, AIO's EUR 15,-); entrance fee both days EUR 40,-
(students and AIO's EUR 25,-).
The prices are inclusive coffee, tea and lunch.
The participants receive a programme with the abstracts of the
presentations after registration in Ghent.
The costs of participation can be transferred to the bank account at
least one week before the conference takes place.
For Dutch participants: Girorekening 5533514 t.n.v. Werkgroep
18e Eeuw Utrecht: please mention your name and 'conference 2010'.
For participants from Belgium: Postcheque 000-1714065-75 t.n.v.
Werkgroep 18e Eeuw Utrecht: please mention your name and 'conference
2010'.
Payments by bank account: ING Zakelijk, Financial Plaza, PO Box
1800, 1000 BV Amsterdam, IBAN nummer NL09INGB0005533514, BIC:
INGBNL2A: please mention your name and 'conference 2010'.
Extra service
It is possible to make a hotel reservation in Hotel Gravensteen, Jan
Breydelstraat 35, 9000 Ghent (a five minute walk from Het Pand) for
a single room with douche and toilet at a special price of EUR
100,00 per night, incl. breakfast, service and btw, excl. citytax
EUR 2,50 per person per night. If you make your reservation please
inform the reservation desk that you are a visitor of the
Enlightenment Conference of 22-23 January 2010 at the University of
Ghent. Email: hotel@gravensteen.be
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